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Truth, Reconciliation, and Food

It’s not our bodies it’s society

life as a disablied person is somewhat difficult. The thing we are overcoming is not things to do with our body buy things to do with our society. “disabled people are more disabled by our societies then our bodies and our bodys diagnosis” those kids in those pictures aren't doing anything out of the ordinary they are just using their bodies.

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Stella young talk about her experience dealing with people and the idea that it’s hard to live as a disabled person. She goes into how some people only view people with disabilities as objects of inspiration. She project images of “inspirational disabled people with captions saying positive things, she says how the images are wrong, those kids in those pictures aren't doing anything out of the ordinary they are just using their bodies, they are just created to put your worries aside. She then discusses how it’s not difficult because of our bodies or our minds but it’s or society, “disabled people are more disabled by our societies then our bodies and our bodys diagnosis”